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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishdoughter,doghter, fromOld Englishdohtor(“daughter”), fromProto-West Germanic*dohter, fromProto-Germanic*duhtēr, fromProto-Indo-European*dʰugh₂tḗr.

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daughter (pluraldaughtersor(archaic)daughtren)

  2. One’sfemaleoffspring.
    Synonym:girl
    I already have a son, so I would like to have adaughter.
  3. A femaledescendant.
    Antonym:son
  4. Adaughter language.
  5. (physics) Anuclide left over fromradioactivedecay.
  6. (syntax, of aparse tree) Adescendant.
    • 2013, Daniela Isac, Charles Reiss, “Chapter 7, Some details of sentence structure”, inI-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science, 2nd edition,Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page163:
      We have distinguished two types of situations from the point of view of the placement of the obligatory X constituent within the phrase XP: one in which X is adaughter of XP, and one in which X is not adaughter of XP, but adaughter of one of the constituents of XP (in an adjunct configuration).
    • 2017, Yicheng Wu, “Chapter 2, The dynamics of language processing”, inThe Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics,Taylor & Francis,→ISBN,page17:
      Following the conventional pattern, the argumentdaughter of a node is assigned the indexn0 and placed on the left side, and the functordaughter, the indexn1, is placed on the right side.
  7. (by extension) Afemalecharacter of acreator.
  8. (informal, uncommon, sometimes derogatory)A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.

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  • Australian Kriol:doda

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female offspring

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